Is there anything that a women does wrong in her pregnancy that causes the embryo not to grow? I started spotting at 10 weeks of pregnancy and was hopeful everything was going to be fine with the baby since many women bleed during pregnancy but 5 days later the spotting turned into light bleeding. I didn't have any pain but went to ER to see what was happening as I was so concerned and afraid to loose my baby. But I knew that nothing could be done to save the pregnancy in the first trimester if anything is wrong with the baby. I wanted to hold on to see if the bleeding stopped. But at this point I had to know as I started to sense the worse. To my surprise in ER they found a sac with a very tiny mass inside, the embryo did not grow. Two days ago at 11 1/2 weeksafter waking up in the morning I got up and felt something coming out from my vagina. I passed the sac which I have at home. I don't want to flush it down the toilet. I don't know where to put it. My tiny tiny baby is inside. Should I put in alcohol? How can I preserve it?